My Navy is getting ready to send the heavy iron out to sea to get away from Isabel:

The US Navy was debating Monday whether to send the Atlantic Fleet out to sea to ride out a powerful hurricane that is expected to hit the US east coast later this week, a US navy spokesman said.
About 70 US navy ships, including the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, were in southeastern US ports threatened by Hurricane Isabel, a category four storm packing 240 kilometer (150 mile) per hour winds.

It's not going to be pretty for the crews, the seas should be high and the ride ugly, but it sure beats what they'd get slammed with in port.